-SSH-AGENT(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual SSH-AGENT(1)
+SSH-AGENT(1) BSD General Commands Manual SSH-AGENT(1)
NAME
ssh-agent - authentication agent
The options are as follows:
-a bind_address
- Bind the agent to the unix-domain socket bind_address. The de-
- fault is /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXXXX/agent.<ppid>.
+ Bind the agent to the unix-domain socket bind_address. The
+ default is /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXXXX/agent.<ppid>.
-c Generate C-shell commands on stdout. This is the default if
SHELL looks like it's a csh style of shell.
Later ssh(1) looks at these variables and uses them to establish a con-
nection to the agent.
- The agent will never send a private key over its request channel. In-
- stead, operations that require a private key will be performed by the
+ The agent will never send a private key over its request channel.
+ Instead, operations that require a private key will be performed by the
agent, and the result will be returned to the requester. This way, pri-
vate keys are not exposed to clients using the agent.
A unix-domain socket is created and the name of this socket is stored in
the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable. The socket is made accessible
- only to the current user. This method is easily abused by root or anoth-
- er instance of the same user.
+ only to the current user. This method is easily abused by root or
+ another instance of the same user.
The SSH_AGENT_PID environment variable holds the agent's process ID.
ated OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol
versions 1.5 and 2.0.
-OpenBSD 4.0 September 25, 1999 2
+BSD September 25, 1999 BSD